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Research

Interests

Smart Camera Networks, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics:
Distributed active camera control, privacy preserving video surveillance, behavior-based computer animation, autonomous characters for computer animation and games, autonomous agent architectures, cognitive vision and control

My research interests center on the study and development of computational models of autonomous purposeful behavior in the context of self-organizing sensor networks, unmanned space robotics, and intelligent virtual characters. In my intellectual pursuits, I am inspired by the amazing biological systems around us, which are capable of sustained, unsupervised, sophisticated behavior in a world that is notoriously difficult to model. The Grand Promise of our field, I believe, is systems that are smart enough to perform their tasks reliably with minimal or no human supervision. I find the challenge of contributing to the development of such systems exhilarating. To date my work has spanned computer vision and graphics, as well as sensor networks, robotics, and artificial life.

Projects

	Proactive PTZ Camera Control ICDSC 09 paper [Reference]		Object Video Streams AVSS 09 paper [Reference]
	Virtual Vision Proceedings of the IEEE paper 08 [Reference] CVPR 07 paper [Reference]		Distributed camera grouping and assignment ICDSC 07 paper [Reference] DCOSS 07 paper [Reference]
	PTZ camera scheduling Multimedia Systems Journal paper 06 [Reference]		Autonomous satellite rendezvous and docking Machine Vision and Applications paper 08 [Reference]
	Visual monitoring for space robotics i-Sairas 05 [Reference]		Facial modeling

Selected Publications

(Complete List of Publications)

• Planning Ahead for PTZ Camera Assignment and Control
  F.Z. Qureshi and D. Terzopoulos
  ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), 2009
  [Reference]
• Smart Camera Networks in Virtual Reality
  F.Z. Qureshi and D. Terzopoulos
  Proceedings of the IEEE, 2008
  [Reference]
  
• Intelligent Perception and Control for Space Robotics: Autonomous Satellite Rendezvous and Docking
  F.Z. Qureshi and D. Terzopoulos
  Journal of Machine Vision Applications, 2008
  [Reference]
  
• Surveillance in Virtual Reality: System Design and Multicamera Control
  F.Z. Qureshi and D. Terzopoulos
  IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2007
  [Reference]
  
• Distributed Coalition Formation in Visual Sensor Networks: A Virtual Vision Approach
  F.Z. Qureshi and D. Terzopoulos
  IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), 2007
  [Reference]
  
• Surveillance Camera Scheduling: A Virtual Vision Approach
  F.Z. Qureshi and D. Terzopoulos
  ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, 2006
  [Reference]
• Surveillance Camera Scheduling: A Virtual Vision Approach
  F.Z. Qureshi and D. Terzopoulos
  ACM Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN), 2005
  Selected as a best paper and invited for submission to a special issue of the ACM Multimedia Systems Journal
  [Reference]

Theses

	"Intelligent Perception in Virtual Sensor Networks and Space Robotics", F.Z. Qureshi, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, January, 2007.
	"Constructing Anatomically Accurate Face Models using Computed Tomography and Cyberware Data,"F.Z. Qureshi, M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, January, 2000.

Students

Current Students

• Chris Little, M.Sc. Computer Science (Co-supervised with Prof. M. Green)
• Gavin Lobo, M.Sc. Modeling & Computational Science (Co-supervised with Prof. D. Aruliah)
• Wiktor Starzyk, Undergraduate Research Associate (SUSRA), Summer 2010
• M.Tanvir Kaykobad, Undergraduate Research Associate (SUSRA), Summer 2010
• Adam Domurad, Undergraduate Research Associate (SUSRA), Summer 2010

Past Students

• Chris Little, SHARCNET Undergraduate Fellow, Summer 2009
• Kaveh Ajorli, Undergraduate Reasearch Associate, Summer 2009
• Mukhtaj Singh, Capstone Undergraduate Thesis, Summer 2009 (Co-supervised with Prof. K. El-Khatib)
• Wiktor Starzyk, Teaching Innovation Fund Project, Summer 2009 (Co-supervised with Prof. J.S. Bradbury)

Prospective Students

I am currently looking to supervise students under the following UOIT graduate programs

• Computer Science
• Modeling and Computational Science

Interested students are encouraged to consult the degree requirements for these programs at the UOIT website. Please feel free to contact me, if you have specific research/supervision questions. I simply do not have the time to respond to emails enquiring about admission process or asking me to help evaluate admission documents.
Please understand that you will have to go through the admission process as outlined at the UOIT website.

F.Z. Qureshi
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